The Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded half of the Nobel Prize in physics jointly to Syukuro Manabe of the United States and Klaus Hasselmann of Germany for modeling Earth’s climate and predicting global warming. From a report: Giorgio Parisi of Italy won the other half of the prize for describing fluctuating physical systems on scales from atoms to planets. The three scientists were honored “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems,” Goran K. Hansson, secretary general Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, told reporters in Stockholm.
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